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Mitch Evans · 11-29-2011, 12:10 AM

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Originally Posted by spyu

I'm game if you're really up for this. How much would you like to wager?

Aren't you in the 26-50 category?

There's a component that many people are overlooking: cardiovascular fitness. As you keep exercising, your blood pressure and heart rate continue to rise each hour. I really don't think most of you guys could sustain 100 miles of exercise (even if your other muscles could).

keepitreal · 11-29-2011, 12:19 AM

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Originally Posted by CalledDownLight

I asked a friend who is a good marathoner (top 25 in this month's NYC marathon-not sure what type of field that has but I think its pretty legit) and he said there is no way in hell he could do 100. Given that, I sincerely doubt that over 10% (ignoring the 201+ trolls) of this polls respondents could come anywhere close to that. In fact, I would bet against any of them being able to do it.

I know that marathoning isn't a perfect indicator of a much longer distance, but it seems like there should be a fairly strong correlation.

1 3 Geoffrey Mutai 2:05:06 Kenya KEN
2 2 Emmanuel Mutai 2:06:28 Kenya KEN
3 4 Tsegaye Kebede 2:07:14 Ethiopia ETH
4 1 Gebre Gebremariam 2:08:00 Ethiopia ETH
5 6 Jaouad Gharib 2:08:26 Morocco MAR
6 7 Meb Keflezighi 2:09:13 CA United States USA
7 14 Abdellah Falil 2:10:35 Morocco MAR
8 8 Mathew Kisorio 2:10:58 Kenya KEN
9 17 Ezkyas Sisay 2:11:04 AZ United States ETH
10 12 Ed Moran 2:11:47 VA United States USA
11 10 Viktor Rothlin 2:12:26 Switzerland SUI
12 25 Abdelkabir Saji 2:13:47 Italy MAR
13 15 Juan Luis Barrios 2:14:10 Mexico MEX
14 23 Teklu Tefera Deneke 2:16:20 NY United States ETH
15 11 Bobby Curtis 2:16:44 PA United States USA
16 227 Tesfaye Assefa Dube 2:19:24 NY United States ETH
17 983 Abdelaaziz Atmani 2:19:36 IN United States USA
18 20 Bado Worku Merdessa 2:20:22 NY United States ETH
19 24 Fikadu Lemma 2:20:41 NY United States ETH
20 57 Rens Dekkers 2:22:48 Netherlands NED
21 21 John Beattie 2:23:43 Great Britain GBR
22 41 Antonio Sousa 2:24:48 Portugal POR
23 53 Daniel Daly 2:25:23 NY United States PER
24 201 Francis Corrigan 2:25:33 NY United States USA
25 236 Antonio Santi 2:27:05 Italy ITA

Which one is your friend?

yeotaJMU · 11-29-2011, 12:20 AM

id be done with it around 20 miles i think

**Alobar** · 11-29-2011, 12:21 AM

75 would be absolutely no problem. I think with enough motivation I could do 100 (either enough money, or gun to my head). Dunno how much more, if any, I could do after that tho.

There was some thread in NVG a couple years ago, where some live pro did 70 in a day, and he wasnt in any special kind of shape. I think you have to be on the pathetic side not to be able to at least do 50. (ie, fat)

cres · 11-29-2011, 12:22 AM

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Originally Posted by CalledDownLight

I asked a friend who is a good marathoner (top 25 in this month's NYC marathon-not sure what type of field that has but I think its pretty legit) and he said there is no way in hell he could do 100. Given that, I sincerely doubt that over 10% (ignoring the 201+ trolls) of this polls respondents could come anywhere close to that. In fact, I would bet against any of them being able to do it.

I know that marathoning isn't a perfect indicator of a much longer distance, but it seems like there should be a fairly strong correlation.

your marathoner is only applicable to a similar length course. His pace and plan is based on that maximum distance.

I ride with a randonneur club, and some of the older members, 65+, will ride 50km to attend a 200km event, and then ride home. Meanwhile the road club racers will be winded and busted when they finish (generally their times are longer for the same distance) and hobble to their cars for the 10 minute drive home. Then those same racers dnf on a 400km ride.

CheckRaise · 11-29-2011, 12:22 AM

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Originally Posted by BornToPun

Envelope math: I can comfortably walk a 14 minute mile, and jog a 10 minute mile. Neither of these paces will make me breathe heavy. Alternating laps on a track, I'm walking a lap in 4.5mins and jogging one in 2.5, for a half mile time of 7 minutes, or slightly faster than 4mph. I think this puts met at ~99.5 miles, which is easily doable if I have anything left in the tank in the last 10 minutes.

seriously? just because walking a mile in 14 minutes or jogging in 10 doesn't make you breathe heavy doesn't mean you'll have no problems keeping that pace up for 24 hours, it generally doesn't work that way

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Originally Posted by Clare Quilty

I dunno, maybe I'm severely underestimating the difficulty of this, but I put myself in the SQE self-described habitual long-distance walker category, and I don't think keeping a ~3 mile per hour pace for 24 hours would be unthinkable if I was properly motivated. I've walked four to six hours straight many times in flat urban areas at a fast clip without any significant distress. I'm sure 24 would be a different beast, but I don't how different it would be.

just walking around city parks for 5 hours at a time?

i personally think people are severely underestimating the difficulty of going 75ish or more (hell even 50 would be hard for a lot of people), especially those of you that are taking <12 hour samples of exercise and just linearly extrapolating that out to 24 hours

stabn · 11-29-2011, 12:25 AM

Gotta be the moran.

aba20 · 11-29-2011, 12:26 AM

I think I could do 100-110. I would be most worried about blisters. I tend to overestimate my physical abilities though.

Edit: As Bronx Bomber's link shows no way I can finish 100 miles. Probably more like 80 then.

Mitch Evans · 11-29-2011, 12:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Alobar

There was some thread in NVG a couple years ago, where some live pro did 70 in a day, and he wasnt in any special kind of shape.

Outside or on a treadmill?

bronx bomber · 11-29-2011, 12:28 AM

Did any of you click on the link ED posted?

http://www.leanhorsehundred.com/wp-c...ll-Results.pdf

It's the results of a 100 mile run. That's not something you just wake up one day and decide to run, you train like hell for that IMO.

52 men finished, only 21 did it in under 24 hours.
21 Women made it, only 7 did it in under 24 hours.
41 men and women did not finish the race.

I think some of you are delusional.

bearz · 11-29-2011, 12:30 AM

posts like these make me wish we were back in 2006, when everyone threw money around like water so we could all just throw up $50 and get these questions answered once and for all

**Alobar** · 11-29-2011, 12:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Mitch Evans

Outside or on a treadmill?

it was outside. Some stretch of road in vegas that he just walked over and over. It was a prop bet.

CheckRaise · 11-29-2011, 12:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Mitch Evans

Outside or on a treadmill?

remember an older thread about a walking prop bet where the dude just walked back and forth on a small section of track (like 100 yards or something) until he got to whatever the mileage goal was, not sure if thats the one alobar is talking about though

**MicroBob** · 11-29-2011, 12:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Jbrochu

Assuming fairly flat ground and "anything goes", 50 is doable for someone in decent shape.

* Walk 3 mph for 8 hours while hydrating and fueling with gels and bars
* Rest, get a sports massage or do SMR, eat, sleep etc. for 8 hours
* Walk 3 mph for another 5 hours and then push hard for the last few to break 50

If the motivation was sufficient I think just about anybody in good shape could pull that off.

You are doing 24 miles in the first 8...and then 15 miles in your next block of 5.

Including the 8 hours of rest you mentioned you now have just 3 hours left to crank out 11 miles....which is a faster pace then you have done for your first 39 miles.

No, you aren't going to be able to pull that off unless you are in really good shape.

And even if you recalculate, I think any plan that involves, "just push hard for the last few" is likely to run into problems. You're 21 hours in...there is not likely to be any "push hard" available that you could summon.

**Alobar** · 11-29-2011, 12:45 AM

found the thread. My memory was a little off. It was 60 miles in 20 hours

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29...0000-a-437577/

he made it with plenty of time to spare